Re: ANNOUNCE: GtkAda 1.2.11

[John English <je@bton.ac.uk>]

Al Christians wrote:
> Normally, when I click on an exe
> file in Netscape (4.76), it will ask me if I want to download it, for
> example Abiword (from http://www.abisource.com/dl_win32.phtml). But
> when I clicked on this exe, Netscape started putting the binary up on
> my screen.  Somehow, it didn't know that it was binary.  Is this
> supposed to be something that the server tells Netscape and didn't, or
> is my Netscape install somehow screwed up even though it works for some
> exe's? Or was the GtkAda exe already mangled when it got uploaded to the
> server?

The server should tell the browser the document's MIME type (e.g.
text/html, text/plain, binary/application, whatever), but it looks
like this server has the wrong MIME type for .exe files. If IE does
it right, it must be ignoring the MIME type in favour of the extension.
Or that's my theory, anyway...

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